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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4911, 18 December 1876, Page 2

We have been informed that Messrs! Bethune and Hunter received instructions from the Secretary of Lloyds, by the mail which arrived last Saturday, to arrange for reporting by telegram the--arrival of all vessels from the United Kingdom . when they reach any port in New Zealand. A circular has been sent to Lloyds’ ■ agent, at all the ports, requesting them to ’ report all English arrivals, to Messrs. Bethune and Hunter, who will then communicate with the Secretary of Lloyds as frequently as may be found necessary. We think the committee of Lloyds have acted very wisely in directing this course to be followed. For several years past all the arrrivals from England and leading Foreign ports have been reported iu Loudon daily, and there is no reason why New Zealand should, form an exception to the general rule. Owners of vessels chartered to come to this colony, and the friends of p’assehgeis -who have taken passage in them, will be saved a good deal of anxiety, as they will now know much sooner whether the ships have naade, good :or bad passages; and the fraternity known at Lloyds as the “ Doctors,” will have fewer opportunities of circulating false reports) and by* this means defrauding: the public by inducing parties to effect insurances at exorbitant, rates of premiums, where in reality there was no reason to apprehend that any accident had happened. This dodge was successfully worked in the case of the ship Commodore. She made rather a long passage, a report was spread that she had been lost, and parties who had goods on board uninsured paid premiums varying from 20 to 50 guineas.

A SUPPLEMENT to the New Zealand Gazette, published on Saturday, contains a proclamation prohibiting the importation of cattle, sheep, And 'swine into New Zealand. The Order in Council ,is made under the second section of the Animals Importation Prohibition Act, 1876, and. provides that “from and after the 16th day of April next, the introduction into .New Zealand of cattle, sheep, or swine, from any country or place in the Continent of Europe, including Great Britain and Ireland, shall be and the same is hereby absolutely prohibited ‘ and forbidden. And in further pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in him by the hereinbefore in part recited Act, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, and with the like advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby prescribe and direct that this Order in Council shall remain in force until the expiration of two years from' the said 15th " day of April,' unless this Order in Council is in the meantime revoked.” ’’